Panatheon 31: Before the Storm

Welcome back to Six Tonight, everybody. That's not how we introduce this show anyway, OK? It's a DND podcast made by idiots. There you go, Gods weather. Weather gods, normally you guys show up in the afternoon. I've had a nap and it's a slightly more coherent than it is right now. My name is Michael. I am currently DNA. I'm here with Maria Nicholson. I'm playing it crassly. Carl Nicholson. I'm playing Balsephalus and I found the inventory. We have items again now. OK, good. I found the Adam Sandler.

Let's go. I think you'll find that it's the Rock, the People's champion. That's a fine. I thought that was Nick. I'm a player speaking at me. A bit weird to have a T-shirt with someone else's excellent cleavage showing on it, but whatever. Right. Great. Look at that. Look at him. Glorious, anyway. I'm playing Adam Sandler. Wow, what a bad Presumably it. Was a bit of mungo, maybe? No. Anyway, he'd. Throw hands if he had to. Drunken fighter? Yeah. Puppy Gilmore? Yeah. He's got a Golf Club instead of 1/4 stuff I guess.

Yeah, exactly. Let the girls speak. Who are you playing? Riv. There. We go Davari, shivari, Davari. How we all doing? Spawn off. I'll talk about it. I'm actually all right. I'm OK. What you guys have done is sit there fighting for the last 20 minutes while I'll be sitting here awkwardly trying to make conversation. We bitchbecker. We bitchbecker. Trying to rub me the wrong way today. It's like he woke up. I thought. It's like he woke up and thought I'm going to be an asshole and now he's being an asshole.

Oh. I mean, if you woke up and thought you were going to be an asshole, he's probably right. I've been an Angel. She's actually not been too bad recently, so yes, that way. Recent. I feel like I'm being discussed in like mediaeval terms between my husband and my brother and they're like working out what I'm worth. She's not been too bad recently. It's dinner. I'm a couple of Guineas for her. I am planning to raid a village on the like island next door. So now is the time for your support that has crossed yes.

Hola. And then once we've done that, I should have enough resources to hire enough men to overthrow my father, and then I'll have control of the hold. This movement needs an. Aim bad ear infection at the moment and probably wouldn't take much. Perfect, we'll just walk in with fucking boom boxes and shit. Let's do a thing, aren't they anyway? Yeah, they are. Actually iPod doc. Now it's not even one of those. Is it irritating fucking speakers that kids have the tubes. They're like tube speaker things that they put on the back of their bikes and then cycle around blasting the same inane song there's.

A guy in that that does that. He's not even a song, which is sound, not music. He's like 70 and he has a on the back of his mobility scooter that he's got loads of flags and shit on and it's always blasting heavy metal. Excellent. See, I approve of that. Yeah, because it's better music, I guess. I don't. I'm guess I'm a hypocrite. It's exactly the same thing. I shouldn't allow that. He's paid his dues to society, though. Has he though? What, even Bruce getting angry that we're not doing anything?

Yes. We have to get out. Of the system, Yes. Are we ready to continue? Well, you just on TikTok. That was on Instagram. Just reading up on the heated rivalry news. It's just reading up on smart. Heated. Rivalry. Heated rivalry? When we get back to the house. K Hockey when? We get back to the house. Fantastic. I have your presence. Oh my God, the I don't have any ice hockey teams. The the Canucks, The Canucks. Canucks. Canucks. Yeah, it's because Canoe was a Viking king in this country and. It's just the is it not just the Knucks?

Silent K. The Wilds and the Canucks the the main Penguins striker for the Canucks and the Wilders. I'd be careful the NHL does not like.

It but someone is using their names, their registered trademarks in a book or just like the. Fact that they're. Becoming gay is the gay thing, isn't it? It's the gay thing. I want to play DND. Fucking Nazis last time. Hang on, who's the 4th time? No, the NHL let's. Just the NHL. Everything before. Yeah, start again. Yeah, it will start again. Last time in Panatheon, you guys met seller at the Tavern in town where you discussed everything that's happened in the last few hours. Mainly the pancreatitis had asked Belle to kill the Prince.

You started trying to decide your next course of action, which essentially was go and confront pancreatitis. You scattered the area for a little bit to see if there was any enemies around and located a few guys outside that you thought might be enemies. You went outside and initiated. Hey, hell of a fight with these guys. They were way tougher than I was anticipating. Bell went in 1st and initially dealt quite a good heavy blow with support from Ick and Riff at the back line. But then things quickly went to shit.

Bell made some very curious, disastrous decisions to sort of stand back and let Riff get the shit kicked out of her rivet. It constantly basically teleported and ran around the battlefield trying to avoid dying. Well another figure started throwing flash bombs from the roof of a nearby building when all looks like it was lost. Samuel saved the day as the Prince rolling in that 20s. So fuck off the guy who was really fucking you up. And it really did save the day because that guy wasn't looking particularly at that format sounds.

Such bad.

Excellent. But you defeated the returns, these figures and bronze masters that were attacking you and fucking you up. You defeated them and that's where we are now. The one on the roof has kind of like run away. You saw that you guys are properly fucked up. Your plan was to go and have a rest. I believe the Prince is kind of standing over Riff and Bell and panting, and then you hear Cilla like calling from the Tavern door. Come come in here, come retreat. I I strongly recommend falling back. Yeah, Bell retreat I. Accidentally some blood towards roof.

I walk past him and go into. The the Prince The Prince grabs Bell and like helps haul it up onto the ground, onto his feet and you. Why we were, why we were treating. We won. They're dead. They're they're on the floor and they're dead now. No thanks to you, Bellamy. Why are you still alive? Oh, that's right, because I healed you eventually. Is that what you think happened? That's exactly what happened. I cast Rally. He gave you temporary health points. No, because I was. No, I was already down. You tried to rally but you can't do that with temp HP so really you left me to fucking die.

I mean, fuck you anyway. But did you die? Guys, we really need to get a move on and the priest is just standing there holding the door open just like waving you through I. Think it's all the nut dropped I. It's gone back in, as in it's gone back in. He's signing autographs. The the tablet is full of people just carrying on the table is going Oh my God, what is happening? Kick the body of the ass who'd nearly killed me, spit blood in his face, and then I walked back in. You sucked. I did suck, yeah.

It was a very bad time. You see said I go over to the bar keep she's like you have a cellar here. It's like yes, just back here and he leads you guys like down some stairs to a cellar and she tells us well, she's like that will be all. Please return upstairs, possibly barricade the door and my dare say it will be bad for you if more of these people turn up. And he's like, yeah, right, go ahead. He runs upstairs and she's like, we can get to my hideout and we can probably rest there, but we need to move quickly.

Hideout. Yeah, you see her like move a bunch of barrels. She's like, you have no idea how lucky it is that you picked this particular Tavern because. They have my whiskey in stock. Pulls up a seller like seller hatch thing that's like in the ground of this cellar and there's like a ladder that leads down to a tunnel. She's like everybody gets in now. How many agents can move against them? Get in the fucking tunnel. We will discuss that when we get back to my highlight. I am in the tunnel. How can you fit?

You're a hill giant. He's weedy, hill giant. He's tall. He's not all muscley. No, he's he's. Some muscle. Toned, he's like a. I'm not like the troll in Harry Potter like. He's more like a. I'm not only 7 foot like. He's like Tom Daley when he was first in the Olympics. Like quite well, like toned, but still quite small. Well, not the rock. No, no, the rock isn't fitting in this tunnel. More of a stone cold. I have I have one of those tops as. Well, Stan Cold, Yeah. Do you really sick? It's amazing.

I I could I have pinged you as a WWE fan, probably not. I don't. Think she's old enough to be like a prophet? Did you what used to watch it like all the time on? Sky, was it still going? I know. It's run by half the American cabinet. I know it used to be. Weirdly, I had. AI had AI had a hyperfixent. We had all the, we had all the toys and we had the rings and it came with like the little plastic chairs and the cages for the cage matches and stuff. It was mostly the games. The games are fucking shit.

I haven't played one of them in years, but they're awesome. I played them around the time they had that system where like your attacks would like weaken their limbs or whatever. So they had like a little dummy picture at the top and like if you weaken their legs, yeah, they wouldn't be able to walk around or their head would split open or whatever. AUW has employed the same type of mechanics. So the newer wrestling, the newer WWE games are going for more wrestling SIM slash realism. The IE, you're not really fighting that much anymore because it's all crowd work and image shit.

But AUW is going back, is like wants to take it back to like WrestleMania 2K it. Wants to be. This is a very different podcast. Yeah, who's? Playing WWE video game or AW ever for realism? Like you're not watching that for realism. Why would you want to play the game for realism? Really fucking anyway, guy?

I know we're all tired. I'm not firing on all cylinders. You climb into the tunnel, you climb into the tunnel and it's like this stinking dank fucking sewer tunnel. Like, it's properly gross, but still a light to torch. She's like, follow me, we should be fine down here for now.

And yeah, you spend like an hour or so crawling through this fucking sewer tunnel, eventually come out to like, I guess sort of bigger sort of system. And it's got sort of like planks laid out across it. It's just like over here. She goes over to a door and it's like the Ratways and Skyrim, essentially. So yeah, you go through this door inside of the system and then you come out into sort of like a relatively cosy, sort of like living room set up. It's still kind of dank and gross because it's in the sewers, but for what?

What it is? You made an attempt to make it homely, I see. Yeah, she closes doors. Like sometimes agents need to lie low and this is one of our safe houses. Feel free to make yourself at home and then we can discuss what to do next and what the fuck just happened. As she goes over and you see her like pour a cork out of a bowl, sniffs it and just starts swinging from it. I face plant into the nearest surface. The floor, yeah, yeah, there's a sofa somewhere. I sit down by the door. I. Curl up in a foetal position and use the Prince as a pillow.

Yeah. I got my head. Cradled in his lap. You know, like. Still, it turns around. She's just like one hand like against the wall, the other hand, like clutching this ball that she's swinging from. She's like, OK, what is your plan now? Because that was a travesty. We won. They're dead, aren't they? Barely. And one got away, I mean. My plan is to level up. You just did that.

Bulls. How many agents do do you have on our side? She takes like a deep like breath and thinks about it. She's like, I will send out some messages. I will call as many people in as we can. We need to figure out what our plan is going to be though. We can probably get close to the palace through the tunnels here and then we can make our move. We can make our move through the streets. Clearly Pancreatitis is already moving against the Prince. We can rest here, but we need to not dally for too long.

Pancreatitis is only going to try and strengthen his position. I think we need to decide whether we're going to fight him now or get the fuck out here while we still have the opportunity to figure ourselves out and then come back. Oh yeah, I say get the fuck out and. Then there's the the wardrobe thing as well. Wardrobe. Oh, Anderson. Bringing people back from the dead, the masks, all that kind of shit. Yeah, what about that? Did you know that he had? Did you know that he could do this? No, no, you told me in the pub.

We showed we. Showed we showed sort of the mosque. I don't I don't know how much information she's withholding from it. So I don't. Think she's? In the business. Yeah, I'm going to be honest, a spy, not in the business of withholding information, but. We. I told you that I was in service in Casmid and that I was working my way into a gang in Casmid, a criminal organisation that was trying to lure people in by telling them that they had a secret immortality. And now we know what that secret is. Pancreatitis was telling you he had discovered a secret to immortality and these people are attacking the Prince after he asked you to kill him.

I think these things are all related. I think that's probably what he's talking about. I at the end of the day, pancreatitis he needs to. We need to spanky panky. He needs to be spanked all the way down to the panky 6 feet under, under his panky, under his panky. He needs to he needs to go. The Prince needs to he he's never going to allow the Prince to take his rightful place. So he he needs to fucking go because he's a bad dude. We need to figure out what this bring people back from the dead shit is and how why.

I have a plan I. Think we need to go to CAN. You give me a body double that looks like the Prince. Want to know why first? Yeah, why? No one's just going. To grant you a body double, Yeah. Last time you just wanted to randomly go to a brothel, so. And was that not for the prince's best interest? Belle, I'm joking. If you can, if I can get a body double. Riff gets a bottle, whatever the alcohol is. I can then. If for some reason piss only has a grizzly whiskey, it is safe houses. If I can get a body double that looks like the Prince, and then I can return to pancreatitis with said body double S head in hands, you can I can I can be in a very good position to be set up as a double agent.

What was all that outside? That was a drunken brawl. That was nothing. That was fine. What happened between me and Anderson? That was an accident in the training cage. I can talk. I can work my way out of this. I mean it's. Not a problem. In fairness to Bell, it does look like he hates all of us, so I think it would work. But you need an excuse as to why you no longer have your tracking sword, right? He didn't ask about it. He's not stupid. He hasn't asked about it. Just have an excuse ready. Stolen by thieves in the night I was asleep they they snuck in as.

Long as you've got one. Yes, I've got 1. Bell's so little bitch. You're telling me I'm. Too tired for this shit. I OK so let's say we can. How the fuck do we get hold of a body double? I don't know that I necessarily have that we necessarily have the time for that. No, I feel that would be maybe not good. I we can't fight him, we could barely fight some fucking thieves outside. I can get some agents. You want us to go now? Personally, I I am for decisive, immediate action, rest, heal your wounds.

I can give you equipment and some things you need, OK? And you go, she says. She goes over and she opens a cabinet and it's like you're like Terminator where they pull a blanket off a thing. It's always gathering. There's like swords in armour and stuff hanging. Up pulls a lever and there's like little gadgets. Yeah, yeah. It's like we have tools and weapons that we can use. Fuck, fine, fine. Can we sleep now? Sounds amazing. Yes, you could. You could have a rest. And then what? We we, when we wake up, load up, fucking kill them.

Yeah, she she's sort of like scissors. Like I personally think that's the best plan. OK, if you have another plan. No, our plan was body down. I I can look into that. Do we take the Prince? Is the question. This is even if we're going and we're doing this, what are we doing? The Prince? He stays here. The Prince is like. I don't leave him on his own. Yeah, he's saying the Prince is just standing in the corner with, like, his head down and like, clearly, like, not in a good place. I I'm going to go over and I'm going to put my hand on his shoulder.

What do you want to do? He bursts into spontaneous tears. Yeah. You don't think too hard, Don't think too hard. Don't think too hard, make a perception check as you look at the Prince. He's the bottom lip like quivering fucking that one. He seems in a great place. That's shaking. That's just excitement. So you want to do this? Yeah. 12. OK, Bell can see, like, Bell knows him pretty well. He can see that he's not in a good place. And you see him like almost like a tear like rolling down his eye. And he kind of like raises his head and just looks directly at like Bell, like fixes him and like size.

He's just like this. This is really, really fucked up and like you can see, it's like quivering. It's like I know you've all had the same conclusion for a long time now that banker tidies was trying to kill me and and a bell didn't believe you and I didn't want to believe it either. But it does seem like that's exactly what's happening finally. The Kingdom is yours by birthright. We are on the eve of battle. Your soldiers need commanding. Can I trust my soldiers? I like staring. Directly at Bell.

It's like because it seems like fuck. Does that mean on the what has been keeping you alive? Yeah. Threatening me constantly me and look at the Prince and go. What the fuck was that up there, Belle? You're supposed to be I I literally trusted you with my life and I what? I'm the one who drives you out the fire stop. Yelling. You don't need to yell. His fucking fanboy's house is fucking play. Then went up in flames. Where were you? Oh fucking cradle in my arms as I am the one who fucking charged through the bloody house to keep you alive.

Am I not the one who dove in after you in that cave? Am I not the one who fought off those horrible fucking fish monsters to keep you alive? Did I not protect you on the boat? Everything I have done, I have done to make sure that you are still breathing. I have my own personal issues with Ravari. That's why I didn't help her. That's why I took personal enjoyment watching the shit get kicked out of her. You have personal. Shut up, because I'm. Right. Yeah. I'm sick of your bullshit dude. I you need to.

Fucking calling me a porn from day one together. We need to unite. You need to stop. This is a petty bitch. It's feeling triggered by his parents divorce and so therefore starts playing the bagpipes very very loudly to stop the fighting.

Well, if this is going to work, we need to work together. We need to know we have each other's backs. Yeah, Bell. Yeah, Bell and. I pull out my sword and I cut gash into my app Oh my. God, but what are you doing? Melodramatic. And then I have then I just. Put it. Back out on the street. I pass my sword over to the Prince. This is a gratitorial pact. We fight together, we bleed together, we die together. The Prince is that not My arms are staying attacked, right? Yeah, he kind of looks at Bells arm and he like takes his sword, slices his hand, puts it over the wound.

Everyone this. Is how disease spreads and. If we're going to move forward, if this is going to happen, if we're going to take out a Kingdom. Are you going to lead me to die? Again, I think that Bell's lost any right to have any opinion on what we're doing and how we do it, if I'm completely honest. I I think Bell has the most stakes in this, I'm going to be honest. So I get why? Trust him. I realise you're compromised. I really I believe me, I understand the conflict here. Out of, out of.

There was no point that even when Bell was told to kill you, was he going to? Make a persuasion. That's true. Is it? Advantage. Is it true? Yeah, you there was never, I mean, OK, fine, this is. What? This is what Ruth thinks. But I there was never a point where I saw Bell go, I'm going to go kill the Prince. He got given the job. I wouldn't keep the shit out of a bunch of training. Yeah, so like 21. Yes, that is actually correct. That's why, one of the reasons why I took the why I went rage in the 1st place, because you were right man.

I wasn't going to kill him, and that's why I had to kill Anderson. Me and Bell might have our own issues, but I do not think he's a traitor to you. Will I trust you, Rev? So, OK, I trust you. I have. I have. Trusted Bell so far I. Was new as a Dick.

I am scared. I'm not going to lie. My uncle scares me. He was the one that mostly raised me. My dad was always busy running the Empire. He's he's tough. He's a scary dude. Together I think we can do this, but again, we have to work together. If we can get a bunch of we can get piss on side the word in a stronger position. I get one of my daggers out and cut my hand. I I do I do a firm handshake.

There's fucking fire between. Go swallow all that Patty shit now. Beg you in. I'm in, I'm not. I'm not going to cut my beautiful body. But I can't. But I'm in. Blood in, blood out. We fight together, we bleed together, we die together. Next time I have a ship, next time I have a cut, you can have it, but I'm not deliberately going to cut myself. Can I just take a cheeky swing of X nose? Doesn't have to be a cut, just some blood. I don't know that it's. Not the face, not the face. I just. I'd say a fit is going to be covered up, but he's fairly exposed at all times.

I slight of hand a nick on the kids hand. Let's stop. I'm. Not allowed to do stuff to them. Yeah, no, it's up to me.

OK, cool. You'll share your blood pact that you're going to fight pancreatitis. You can. Have my blood layer.

I'm too pretty to cut myself open. The the the the horse Lord. Fuck, what's his name? Oh my God, damsel. He was interested in the idea of aiding us, provided that we could return his cavalry to him. There are, I think, a lot of people who don't like hanky panky. Sorry, Daddy panky, Daddy panky. Whatever the. Fuck, he's only hanky panky when he's being naughty. Still thinks about it, just like maybe, I guess Demnio could be a distraction for Pancreatitis if we can give word to them quickly, if they could mobilise, even if they just, I don't know, send a letter to Pancreatitis saying that they are challenging him.

What information do you have on the other Lords in the hold is is there anyone else willing? She thinks about it, she's like, I know that damn near in the South, another Martial Kingdom are probably in a similar position to Fasse. They kind of resent having their Marshall status quashed under the Empire. Instead of being a proud military nation, they're just providing troops for someone else, and that kind of grinds grinds on them a bit. Kazmaiden, as I've said before, was already more or less lost to the Empire, was formally a part of Pantheon, but the city itself was controlled by organised crime groups.

Elvis in the north. The Dwarven city, The Forge City is sort of an unknown at the moment. They've been hard to contact the rest of the region. I'm not pretty sure if we have friends in down near. If you have friends in down there then I can try and contact someone there and perhaps they can do something to assist. I'd rather avoid starting an all out war but we're sort of getting closer and closer to that with every step.

Is there anyone in the palace did you think we could contact?

Brad, Chad and Chester. Actually, I, I, yeah, maybe they, they're not there. They're not ever jealous, Yeah.

Good catch. It's the picture. He should be receiving instruction on how to better perform as well as the advisor Archimedes we trust. Archimedes, do we know? Yes. Yeah. I still think, is it Chad that we made? Yeah, Yeah, I think Chad's a good shout. Me and Chad have a rapport. He's he's rich. He comes from a wealthy family. He loves the Prince. He. Does. There must be in. We can kill him at the end if it makes you happy. Yeah, that'd be really nice. OK, cool. We don't actually have to kill him, which is like whatever gets rib on board.

You mentioned that Casmaiden is largely controlled by organised crime. Yeah. Do they want an inn? Do they want? Do they? Would they, Would they? Would these some of these families like to move South? We could use everything to our advantage as an aid for distraction.

She thinks for a moment she's like, I don't, I don't know. They probably have, you know, fingers and pies elsewhere, but I suspect as a criminal organisation they're probably content for the moment to stick with Casmidin. However, maybe treating with them would help in the long term. Again, we need to we need to act relatively quickly. Casemarton's a long way away if we have friends in the palace. This Archimedes, the advisor to Glutinous, is probably not a bad shout if we can contact him as. Far as I'm aware, we don't have like a send message.

I think we'd have to return to the palace and I'm sure by now that people would be on that. Pancreatitis would be on a lot, especially if he can bring Anderson back a second time, which is why I really wanted that that clone. Because. At least then I have a reason to return. Now I don't really have one. I mean, last time I was quite popular, so I could just go back as a Bard to the palace, play some music, get everyone's. They know you were with the Prince and Belle. They also know. That pancreatitis was thought into sending people out to the street to fight the Prince, to try and kill the Prince.

Yeah, but is it not so hard to believe that I would be sick of them and have gone my own way as a superstar? I'm not going to spend the rest of my life with the Prince. And I fear if you do that, he will kill you where you stand. You'll be imprisoned. He won't make a public spectacle, and you'll he'll find another reason and you'll be imprisoned. You might you may be killed in prison, but you won't be killed on the street. I. Don't know, just an idea. Jesus, shoot me down much? She goes. Which actually actually not a bad plan.

Classic. Crassly, what if I do this? That's stupid. Good idea though. At least at least then Inc is already in the palace and with his commands and his voice he it will be very easy for him to get out disguise self. They can roam the halls as a, as a, as a, as a hooded Walker. I have a series of sending stones I can use to contact people in. In places I can contact someone in the palace I could contact if there is someone. Have command so if they try and arrest me I can just say stop or. Why don't you go with disguise self rather than just going in as egg?

What if I go in as hanky panky again? Was my hanky last night. He might notice. That if he's looking at him, he's staring at himself. I could go in as Anderson. Didn't we get rid of the body? So he doesn't know that Anderson's dead, right? Unless he's already alive. Bell left him in a ward with nurses. So someone's going to know. For sake. I think. I think you go in as. Just a random one. OK. You don't have to be. Anywhere, just so I know what I'm doing. Like disguise myself. I'm like as well. I'm just.

Covering up my face and what? You're travelling bad from from Satya. I'm an Ick Wrestling tribute. OK, he only knows the grizzly. Song I'm going to sound like me when I sing, but. So, OK, so we've got one person in, then what? Your mum. Your mum, she's. Gonna help. Yeah, she's she's guys, grow up. Magic, ask her to open a doorway. She doesn't need to help, just give us a secret back passage into the palace. Well, like dimension door. Yeah, and with your sending stones, send, send, send the stones out.

Where to? To everyone in the hold and every. And I just ask for grievances. If anyone has any problem with pancreatitis, now is the time to air them. OK, OK, I can do. I can do that. And I can probably get a message to Archimedes via someone in the palace. I can do that. I can get him to prepare for a fight or I can get him to maybe find a back door to sneak us into. Worst case scenario position. He's in I'm concerned about how many piss agents maybe are on pancreatitis side, but there are a few that I trust.

The this Chad you spoke of, he's in Amnes I. Believe, I believe, I believe we left him. We leave him a college. Yeah, he was completing his training. Yeah, he's, he's, he's going to become Kalian Kalian Austin ID's advisor. So he has to complete his education. I can perhaps send word to Amnest to prepare them. If they've already picked an advisor to work with the Prince, they're presumably on the prince's side, so they're. A frat, so they should. Be it was a whole ordeal. It sucked. Honestly, I wouldn't recommend it.

So contact Archimedes. Haven't prepared what? Intercept any messages from from Pancreatitis. Start causing delays on movements. If for any reason Pancreatitis feels that he needs to leave the palace, make a bird go missing, burn a note. Just slow down his movements in any subtle way that he can. Yeah, keep, keep. Maybe just let us know what he's fucking doing. OK, OK, I can get an intelligent support from him, that's fine. So our communities, Chad Fasse Amnes, Shiv, anything else, she's going to give you a load of well, she's going to try and fix you up with some stuff before.

You go into I, I, I don't know if I asked my mum for help. First of all, I don't know what she could do. Second, I don't know if I wholly trust her. No. She's not giving me trusting vibes right now. Do you have an underling that you can trust or a compatriot? Who? I have some fellow agents that I can I can speak to. Can you get someone to check the mausoleums? Yes. It sounds weird, but. Yes, if. If pancreatitis has found a way to bring people back to life, as we have seen, and it's also been happened in that say, then it would be worth knowing if their bodies have gone missing.

Actually, that's quite a good point if. That's how it works. OK, well this is I'm going to go in a corner and try and get a hold of Shiv. Cool, how? I don't hear you said I could maybe pray. Yeah, make a Yeah, make a religion check. Yeah, because you're both demigods. Surely there's some sort of magical fucky Bucky things going on there?

Yeah, that's. Work. I'll just wait for someone else to go over. Cool, right? I'm afraid of Aries. And then I'm asleep. OK, Stella has her plan. Everyone starts going to bed. Pray to Aries, make a relationship. What are you praying for? Mainly victory in battle, but also guidance. I want to know kind of, it's kind of like a pre pre pre battle like ritual that I picked up from the from the godatorial arena, making sure that this is the right kind of fight to be going into. Hoping, praying for victory, praying for success and strength and hoping to start some sort of dialogue.

If Poseidon's gone missing, then hopefully Aries are still around. OK, 17. Even even in this jank gross sewer, you feel like almost a rising warmth come through you and it feels like it feels like. My rage has a. Response. To that. And you prepare to sleep. As you're sort of like laying out your bedroll, the Prince comes and sort of sits on the stool next to you. And he's like, well. My name is. I'm sorry about questioning you loyalty. Ruth made a good point and I guess so did you and just this is really fucked up and I'm sorry you've ended up in this situation.

I know. I know what Banker's IDs means to you, and I feel really bad that it's come between the two of us. I'm not going to lie, I told Pancreatitis. If he had asked me to do it to begin with, I would have followed out in order. But that was before I knew that I was being used. I'm not asking for immediate trust. That is something that I will earn in future. I just want you to know, I'm sorry. Me too. Again, I would not put you in this situation if I don't know, and I really, really appreciate you taking my side.

We need people that we can trust and I need people that I know can. You're a weedy little bastard that people will love. You're going to make a fine king. We just need to get you there. You chuckles Chucks. OK, well, I'm. Going to go crawl on the corner and cry for a bit. If I defect in my only remaining family is trying to kill me and using my friends to do it. He goes into a corner and like, just sobs himself to sleep. Night probably falls. Who knows? You guys get some sleep. You get about 8 hours.

Silla stays up like scribbling notes in the corner. You can hear her softly talking into these, like sending stones. She's got like a array of sending stones. They're all like labelled and you can see like, yeah, see if it's all good to those. Morning comes probably again, who fuck knows? She turns the lights on. You see her like there's like an oil Lantern thing on the ceiling and she like turns the side of it like bright, dim, bright, dim, bright, dim, bright, dim. Everybody wake up. It plays the bagpipes like they do in.

It's like battle model. It's.

Literally worse than hearing the dead. He plays Scotland the Brave. And I would fucking know. She hands you all out like cantis filled with some liquid. She's like, OK, so I've been I've been working all night and I've been trying to get hold of people. So we're just going to run down the list. OK, so the first the first person I tried to contact was Archimedes in the palace. He he's reported back pancreatitis is seems to be building up forces within the palace. There are people there that he he doesn't recognise.

There seems to be he he suspects that pancreatitis is launching A coup now, hence why we need to act. At the moment he is stayed in position. He says only within the palace is anything being planned. As far as he can tell, nothing's been sent out. He's been monitoring pancreatitis mail. The only mail he's had so far is a letter from Fasse. Which brings me on to the next point. Fasse has sent word to the palace officially declaring their signing with the Prince. They have said they're sending a detachment of soldiers, warriors to help aid in security.

They were actually not far behind you, so they'll probably be at the palace by the time we get there. So that's a start.

The course is good. I've also gotten word to Amnest. I asked about Chad and I asked about ship Chad. They couldn't find. This is a concern. Apparently the Prince's fraternity house was attacked. Brad and Chester have been located, but Chad is missing. It pulls her face at Riff. I didn't have time.

I asked for Shiv. Your sister. She was at the college until recently, but she, she's got a wall. Fuck. I've asked my colleagues there to investigate her, her property and so on. I apologise for that, but I assume you wanted to know where she is. Yeah, However, the government in Amnest, the Dean in the college, appreciates the situation we're in. I was rather forthcoming, I suppose, but they have guaranteed to send majors to assist us. So we'll have a detachment of soldiers from Thesse and a detachment of majors from Amnest.

We'll also have piss agents on our side, so we're building up forces already. So whatever pancreatitis has in the palace, we already have allies. How many agents do you have? She's working on that. I've sent word out to as many people as I can. I've sent word to the people I can trust. They're around people that they trust. But we're also being careful. We're looking out for people who may be betraying. Any word on the mausoleums? That's an interesting 1. So I sent word to find out about the Muslims and for the most part around the city, houses of Veritas are working as normal.

There are, however, some they're taking bodies in. No one is no there. There's no, there's no bearing. So these they're more like charity funeral rhymes if you like. So people who don't have income or people from the street or people who are unidentified that don't have family, they're being yes, they're being taken to these houses, they're dealing with them, but they're not burying anybody. God. Damn it, fucking zombie army. But at the moment we have we have allies converging on the palace as we speak.

So it's time we get ourselves prepared. Let's. Fucking. Go Yeah. So then she starts doing the Terminator two thing of Dragons like it's off of racks of weapons. Montage ribs like putting over like a grenade belt on her own. Yeah, I think from the set of worms. Yeah. She turns to a crash and she goes, you seriously need some protection. But I appreciate we don't want to necessarily cover all of this up. And so she turns back. She picks up. This chest out. She picks up like this like essentially like a hot light battle kilt.

You know, that's what I completed skirt thing that you see in like. The Highland dress. So it's like a blue pleated skirt and it's got like slabs, slabs of like slabs, slats of like metal, like coppery, brassy, orange, gold metal. A Roman skirt. Yeah, yeah, like that, that offers that to you. That's going to be a + 1 studded leather armour, essentially. She turns to Persephalus, looks at your sword and says, I don't think I can really offer you an upgrade on that however. And she pulls out this stone.

She goes use this, you know, it's a whetstone, you deal with weapons and stuff. And she said like, rub that on your sword. That will turn your sword into a +10. Shit, OK. She turns to Ravari. It's just grinning like, oh, I'm getting something. She pulls out the dagger that Bell was given to attack the Prince with and offers it to you. I don't have much more than that. You don't wear armour and you don't use weapons. But he wasn't paying attention so I took this. There you go. I do have this though and pulls out a scroll and hands it to you.

You want to be careful of that though. Scroll. That's a fireball scroll. Fuck it. Fireball. Yeah, I've already got fireball. Yeah, well, now you've got a free one. I've got a free one. I'm sat there now with my new leather skirt and I'm taking the slats off and stitching them onto my actual kilt. OK. Fine, and that's a dagger of venom. For what it's worth, I've got an array of potions and she pulls out five healing potions, so I guess one each. And then she pulls out two bigger healing potions, So greater healing potion.

Cool. I'll write them down and then we can. Yeah, I'm not going to do. I will do the magic inventory thing from Boulder's Gate so you don't have to have the potion on you necessarily. And then I've got these and she pulls out a bunch of blue vials with like a silver cork on the top. Should take these when fight starts and you need to get a potion of bless. Is there anything anybody else wants before we go can? I just try one more time to try and get hold of the Shiv. Yeah. Shiv is not coming. How confident are you with our forces?

She. Looks around.

Running around with her new dog. What did the Prince get did? The Prince get anything? No. She's like, good point. She gives the Prince a shield I guess. What does he have? Not much he. Doesn't have a lot, does he give him? A crown. Escort. Sure. He's got a dagger, a short sword. I think I've he's got chainmail. I remember giving him chainmail armour. Yeah, because that. Was the armour that I was wearing before? She gives him another whetstone so that his sword becomes a + 1, and she gives him a shield so that his arm class becomes +2.

So he's a bit harder. So he's got shield, he's got a short sword. So he's more like a sort of typical like hot light guy. He's just with a short sword. He's like rolls his head over his shoulder. He's like, OK, I think we're good. I think we're ready. Let's go get your fucking crown.

I have an idea. Call me crazy. Why don't we stop off at the gladiatorial pits on our way up to the pass? Invite them along as well. They hold no allegiance. They are literally fighters for a crowd and there is going to be a big fight. OK, fuck it. Cool, let's do it. Yeah. So head out of this like system thing and you see Silla pulls up like a map and like it's looking at, she's like, OK, if we go to the gladiatorial, gladiatorial arena, it's that way. The arena in Anan's is much grander than the one you fought in in Fasse.

So you come up again in like the cellar of this Random House. This is like just an abandoned house. This is a piss safe house. This is one of our points of ingress. Hold on you. We spent the night in the cellar. We could have been up in here. We're more protected in the cellar on the ground. Yes, I understand that if we're in this house and they figure out where we are because there it could be Asians within piss just busting into this busted down house is doesn't matter anyway. You go outside and like turn the corner and this huge essentially got Coliseum massive, like round Oval building statues and flags on the top.

And like it's not it's not bustling because it's like first thing in the morning or any fights or anything going on. But Bell obviously knows the way to get to the pits underneath. I'm home. I agree. Damn, I get what you do it now. Yeah, man, this is probably the best one of the country, obviously. Shit. 50,000 people standing cheering. Yeah, boring. It's it's a thrill. Only 50,000. Yeah. All right, so I lead, I lead everyone down into the the pits. There is essentially like essentially like a stable, I guess, or a prison underneath the thing where all the gladiators are.

Some of the rooms are a little bit nicer if they're like good gladiators or famous or popular. And then there's like just shitty ones where all of the kids that like like bail Cefalus once Once Upon a time to sleep on a bed of straw on a gore soaked stone. If you're lucky, sometimes we just just get the wood. Yeah, there's not a lot of point investing in someone who's going to die instantly. It's only when they start there's a. Lot I'm understanding about. You. Yeah, It's a product of his environment.

Unfortunately, his environment was shit. You make your way down to the pits. You're able to plug your way in as Belsaphilis of the Killing Fields of Elysium God. Damn right. They know who you are. You've served here for years and you're with the Prince as well and a bunch of tall up guys and they bring you down to the pit and he's like, what would you like down here? Everyone. OK, you hear like someone like smacking like a gong somewhere like a. Bong bong, bong. And slowly all of these people and they're all just in like tattered like the loincloths and shit at the moment because again, they're all just being woken up and they all approach and they're like sleepy.

I know what the fucks going on. From the day you enter these halls and bleed on the sands above, you are promised to fight for the right to enter Elysium. On this day, I ask that you raise your weapons with us so that you fight for the future of the city in which this arena stands. Stand with me. Row a persuasion check a advantage. Fight for your right to party on the bagpipe. Triple advantage. Let's. Go. That's. The part I can spare with that. Yeah, add symbolic. Flat 18. We swayed a bunch of people oral D12 and I'll do that advantage and see how many people join the fight.

You see 88 like proper Burley gladiators, like popular looking guys. They're like you. They've got like scars. They're like look like they know their shit. They step forward. We're like, we'll do it. Fucking. We gotta fight by your side, I lean. Into IG and I go. I think this is kind of a weird frat I'm getting Brad. Chad survived. And then you do see like you've got some of the like weedier ones, like, yeah, fuck it, I'd rather do this than die, reader. And there are there are some people who are clearly like cowards or they're injured or they're sickly or mostly just cowards.

Like I don't want any partners. I'm not getting involved in like how much yourself. But for the most part, all of these guys are like. You think like the beefy guys leave when the weedy guys fight each other, they've got more chance of winning. I see some people like I reckon I got a chance tomorrow now. I was going to fight him next week. OK, OK. You round up your gladiators, everyone gets toured up. You see the prints down there say like yeah, I realise this is your business and so on. I will, you will be, you will be compensated.

I really need this. OK. Cardio, you're going to be king. You don't need to back into these people anymore. No, I feel like even if I'm king, I shouldn't just be going around taking everybody's stuff. And I know it's weird that we're saying that these people wear his stuff, but this is a whole other thing that's just right now. Let's go. You head out onto the street. You've got all of these gladiators surrounding you and as you March up the Ave. Essentially. You go, you get to the hill, the paved Rd that goes up the hill, that goes up towards the palace like you were before.

It's lined with flags all the way along the side. And then like off that you've got like a sidewalk and then huge villas and mansions because rich people live here. And as you climb up there, you see a detachment of horsemen coming up a side road and they're all in the colours of Fasse. He'll come riding up and you see Solaridos like as he, as the horse pulls up, he like hops off the side and like power slides his horse essentially as he comes to the ground, like in one swift movement, it comes off, removes his helmet and salutes the Prince.

I hope this makes up for everything that we did that I got caught out for. Before he turns to belt surfers. He goes Your sword that you put on a cart was attacked a mile outside of the city. Surprise. Surprise by what? Surprise, surprise.

He he turns around and like pulls from like a knapsack on the side of his saddle. He pulls out one of these bronze masks. These were left at the scene and he puts it back in his sack. Yeah. It without thinking. These are the men I have with me. I have asked for more support from Tasse but it will take time for them to get to here. But this is this is what we've got at the moment. We have asked, we have sent out word we may, or we have a few agents within the palace walls walking to our advantage and this is our army.

Yeah, you see gladiators, they always slamming their Shields or whatever. Riv gets a buzz on her sending stone.

Hello. Is this Ravari? Ravari, this is a new she room. It's you. It's descending stone I gave you. No. No for sure. OK, hello. If it's me, it's Primus. Hello. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. OK. You. Just. 2 steps to the right. Yep. How was this? Yeah. You better. Better. OK, Good. You hear me now? Yeah. OK. Good. OK. Good. OK. Good. OK. Ravi, this is important. I I was staking out of the principal's new advisor at, at the college. Yeah. And he was clearly being spied on. So I I stole him or kidnapped him or saved him.

You could argue. Yeah, yes. He, he wasn't entirely clear what was going on. It's it's fine. He's never clear where he is. But I I also I have friends in high places in Amnest and I heard what was going on and we are we are in the palace, we are in our communities office. We are hidden Pancreatitis seems to be aware that something's going. On yeah, I would be shocked if he didn't massive Army A.

Wooden. Massive. We oversell that. We're massive. He's going to have more people. Yeah. Yeah, we're like 6 people I don't even worry about. So have you got Chad with you? Yes, Chad is with me. Damn it. I mean, thank you.

Yeah, dude, don't worry. I'm here, Riff. This is cool. I'm here, man. Chad. Eric wrestling. Eric Wrestling. Eric Wrestling. Your sister by any. Chance, Chad. Yeah, man. I need one word answers from you. OK, dude. Oh fuck, sorry, fuck, sorry. Oh, try again.

Have you seen Shiv? Which one is Shiv now? The one that looks pretty much like me. Yeah, I remember Shiv. We've been calling our hot rib. I know. Yeah, you are, man. He's slightly older than us and we fight it. Intimidating. That's. Fair, I'm fine with that. Chris getting warm in here. Yeah. It's all right. I haven't seen her for a couple of days. I served just before Primos turned up. And yeah, she know why she's been closed that office, you know, I mean. It's not anything new necessarily, but.

Normally she like fires little spells at us to make us go away, whereas recently she's just been completely ignoring us. That is the reason why we are siblings, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, no, I haven't seen her for a little while. Sorry. OK, well I'm going to. Go. Now. Go. OK, if you can, just one more thing, just try not to talk. OK, ever. OK. Fantastic. Thank you, my presence. Bye cool cool. Is unfortunately here. Yes, yes. What's his? Name. My ring. What's person? Person. Premos.

Premos has is in the concert Harley with Archimedes and some other people who are going to help us. I've got two things I need to do. OK I pull out my pull out my sword. I go over to the Thesayan and the Casmayan flags that are on like and I cut them down. OK. I hand the general the Thesayan flag. We're going into war. You're going to need a standard. OK cool. I like this and. I hold the Casmayan flag high as I as I resume marching. You get yourself a couple of standards. You March up the road towards the palace.

People are clearly like there's a ripple going out across the city and people are watching from their windows and crowds are forming on the street. As you do so, you start to hear chanting. Some people seem to be mistaking this is some kind of weird parade. And you hear people chanting for colonos, 90s, for Colo, for the prints, for the king. Like, clearly there are people on site. As you approach the palace, as you get to the palace, gates are open. There are guards on like the tower and in front of the gate, and they're kind of like looking at you guys.

Like what the fuck is going on? The Prince is at the front. He's looking pretty mighty now, walking with a bit of a spring it is stride, and they kind of like salute the Prince as he comes in, March up to the palace door, kick the door open. You enter into the main greeting room, a throne at the end. Pancreatitis sitting in the throne, full armour, helmet on one armour the chair, huge sword letting up against the other end, flanked like load, like hundreds of thieves, like returned mask wearing people that stands up, grabs his helmet, one hand on the sword, stabs into the ground, rolls his head on his shoulder, shoves his helmet on, draws his sword, looks directly at that.

So it's treason then? And that's where we're in the. Episode Oh God, there was there was like, you want to talk about trees? Yeah, right. Fucking hypocrite the bag. A proper bad guy never realises they're a bad guy. Literal. Firestorm that's. What you were like with my PIP assessor? Oh yeah, I was good guy. Yeah, pop off mate. We're a bunch of assholes. OK? Thank you all for listening. Come. Back next episode, every bar. Yeah, next episode is going to be a big old fight. We'll have a quick break.

Yeah, go for a piss, have a drink, and let's do this fucking fight. Let's have pancreatitis kill everybody. Woo. Anyway. I was gonna, I was gonna, as we were walking up, I didn't do it, but I was gonna like put my head up because we all know the cloak is. Coming. OK, the cloak is coming up. Shit's getting real. When, as he says that in the next episode. Right, bye. Come back next time. Write to us at 609-d&[email protected]. Look us up at 609 D&D on Instagram. Share like, subscribe, break, blah, blah, blah.

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Panatheon 31: Before the Storm

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